50 Creative and Inspiring Left-Aligned Web Designs

It’s no secret that all of us here at SpyreStudios like left aligned website designs (I mean, look at SpyreStudios). Yes, at one point in time the left aligned websites were all we had, but then people found out about CSS and the centered websites dominated. This post is our attempt to show that left aligning your website is not dead and can definitely be used in creative and useful ways.

Below you’ll find a group of left aligned websites that I feel showcase how cool the left aligning of websites can actually be. Let us know in the comments if you have a left aligned website or if you know of one that isn’t on the list.

Kiwi Bank ↓

Subtraction ↓

This is Aarons Life ↓

Dojo Design Studio ↓

84 Colors ↓

Area 17 ↓

Jason Santa Maria ↓

Jeff Finley ↓

30 elm ↓

Cabedge ↓

Ser-vice ↓

Colourpixel ↓

Duoh ↓

Momono ↓

Jon Malkemus ↓

Ronnie Morales ↓

Thomas Fals ↓

Parabolic Playground ↓

Disconnect ↓

Josh Sender ↓

Jonathan Olsen ↓

The Kabro ↓

Red Velvet Art ↓

Lucky Stars Tattoo Studio ↓

Marie Julien ↓

Red Panda Creative ↓

Rock Beats Paper ↓

Ricardo Turchini ↓

The Amanda Project ↓

Roman Pittner ↓

Duplo Studio ↓

A Brief Message ↓

Oink Fu! ↓

Font Book ↓

Jayphen ↓

Jeremy Charles ↓

Behind the Websites ↓

Jason Schuller ↓

Best Of Video Sites ↓

aeroom ↓

Anjan Shrestha ↓

Squid Ink Restaurant ↓

Photo Comma ↓

eGrace Creative ↓

Andy Thomas Photography ↓

Coke Studio ↓

fntnhrl ↓

Orange Label Design Studio ↓

David Arias ↓

Fellow Creative ↓

Your Turn To Talk

Do you prefer left aligned or centered website designs? And why? Please let us know your thoughts in the comment section below! :P

Comments

The selection couldn’t be better, the perfect showcase of left aligned websites :)
It sure is a different approach that far from dead is simply a great alternative if you are creative enough and know what you are doing.

Ok…so there are some GREAT designs here. However, having a 24″ widescreen monitor running 1920×1200 screen resolution there’s not a single design that I wouldn’t prefer to be centered, in this entire list.

Center-aligned designs cut this whitespace in half and it adds to the appeal. just my .02

I have a wide screen too. But I definitely prefer the left align. The center align seems all-over-the-place when I try to adjust my window size. Don’t even get me started on liquid layouts. They drive me crazy!

A lot of these designs are great, but like Cory said above in the comments, with a large monitor and high resolution , left aligned websites are hard on the eyes to move that far to the left of your monitor.

The average monitors are only getting bigger, and with higher resolution, so this is going to become more common as months go by.

I wrote a post about website alignment back in December 08, and a poll of my visitors shows that out of 121 people, 107 preferred center aligned websites. These are mainly designers as well.

However, that being said, your site is probably one of my favortie left aligned sites I’ve seen. Clean, simple but with the perfect touch of design flair.

this is an exhaustive list! I’ve got to say though, I agree with other posters about larger screens and centering layouts. It’s just an appearance thing. I have a high resolution screen too, and having left-aligned sites just leaves so much white space! (Although sometimes white space is good, not this time )

Normally I prefer centre aligned, however sometimes (especially with more minimal designs) the content can look a little lost and it is actually easier to read left aligned as the browser edge provides some sort of border.

Thinking it about my preference for centre aligned can’t be very strong I don’t notice or regard it as a problem that I primarily look left when using dreamweaver or photoshop, nor for that matter when I use google.

Found you while looking for left-aligned inspiration for a new project, glad I did!

I think part of the key to making a left-aligned design work is what you do with the whitespace on the right. I think Dojo and Ser-vice are particularly successful in this selection, and my creative juices are definitely starting to flow.